Sun Tech Days Hyderabad 2009

India has always had the largest number of attendees of all the Tech
Days, and this time is certainly no exception. 10,000+ attendees, the
passion for technology, the eagerness to share their work, and
everything else makes it certainly one of the most exciting venues for
Tech Days.

The Hyderabad
International Airport is certainly very impressive - big,
clean, and very 21st centurisque with a 8-lane freeway connecting to
the main city.

See a short video as the attendees were allowed to enter the
href="http://www.hicc.com/">Hyderabad International
Convention Center (the venue for Tech Days):

I got a chance to talk to the General Manager of the convention center
and very happy to
know that similar convention centers are planned for Pune (1/2 the size
of existing one), Mumbai (4x), and
Bangalore (2x) in the near future.

As part of the opening, there was an excellent performance by an
11-year old percussionist, enjoy the video here:

Absolutely stunning performance!

It was funny, I was standing right
next to the boy's parents while recording the video. Apparently the boy
was allotted 10 minutes and the parents were trying their best to
distract the boy right at the beginning of 11th minute :)

I presented on:

WSIT: Security, Reliability, Transactional, and
.NET-interoperable Web services (
href="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/confs/wsit-techdays-hyderabad09.pdf">slides).
The
href="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/screncast_ws7_secure_and_reliable">screencast
#ws7 is the demo shown during the talk.

There were 1000+ attendees in both the sessions and had some very
interactive discussions post session. It was a great opportunity to
meet lots of local
href="http://developers.sun.com/students/campus_ambassadors.jsp">Campus
Ambassadors, students using GlassFish for their projects,
engineers using GlassFish for their development/deployment, Sun
colleagues and lots of other folks!

Comments

by subbu_sk2005 - 2009-02-23 06:21

wow i was one of the attender of hat scenario.wow! what days they are
i felt a little bad when i was getting home ,like i was missing my best friends but not more !!
im practicing java applications and im very eager to join the java community
mr.arun gupta i would like you to keep mailing me the new java updates
and let my career fill with it(java> i again thank all the java team for giving me this wonderful moment of my life
sorry for bad English and thanks again